Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB Internal HDD Review

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Today we are looking at the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB internal HDD. This is Seagate’s first 1TB drive and is a direct competitor to the Hitachi 1TB drive we reviewed before.

The Seagate drive performs well and has great storage capacity. The only potential problem with the drive is that it is expensive. Read more

Posted on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:06:06 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Momentus ST9160823ASG 7200.2 160GB SATA Notebook Hard Drive Review

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Today we are looking at the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160GB notebook hard drive. This drive is as fast as notebook hard drives get right now and has good storage space for your music and files.

Installing the drive into my MacBook was easy and the drive performed very well in benchmarks and real world use. If you want to get more storage space and more performance from your notebook, the Momentus 160GB HDD is a great choice. Read more

Posted on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:53:04 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Latest Reviews include iPhone, Seagate FreeAgent Pro and MacBook Pro

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We have been busy again last week testing computer hardware and gadgets.

Our review partner Digital Trends published an interesting Apple iPhone review and a MacBook Pro Review. Of course we also tested a graphics cards this week: PowerColor HD 2900 XT Video Card.

All reviews from last week below. Read more

Posted on Sun, 8 Jul 2007 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB External Hard Drive Review

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Today we are having a look at another external hard drive, this time from Seagate. The Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB external hard drive can be connected via USB, FireWire 400 or e-SATA making it very versatile.

The large 750GB storage capacity is also a great way to be able to store more video, music, files or other information. The drive also ships with backup software so you are ready to go right out of the box. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:35:57 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate launches 1TB HDDs Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2

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Seagate introduced two 1TB hard drives today. The Barracuda ES.2 1TB HDD is aimed at networked and tiered storage solutions, reference/compliance storage, disc-to-disc backup and restore, archiving solutions, rich media content storage and collaboration.

The 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 is aimed at desktop and gaming computers.

The perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) hard drives Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2 deliver 7,200-rpm spin speeds, average seek times of 8.5ms, caches up to 32MB and Seagate's five-year limited warranty. Seagate uses four discs to provide cool operating temperatures and low power consumption in the new 1TB drives. Read more

Posted on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:42:04 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB External Hard Drive

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Everything USB reviews the Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB External Hard Drive.

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"Backups can be such a chore. For the novice computer user, they're a maze of which folders and backup schemes to pick from. For geeks, they can be slow, inefficient, and sometimes even have the nerve to rely on our memory to press a button! Read more

Posted on Mon, 21 May 2007 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Launches DIY Lost File Recovery Tool

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If you have ever lost data to a virus, OS crash or a malicious user you know how frustrating having to recreate files, if that is even possible, can be. Take that a step further with business where you run the risk of disgruntled employees erasing files purposefully that can seriously damage a business and cost more than money.

Before I worked in the world of full time geeks I was an IT guy for a pharmacy. We had an employee erase files that we needed when she quit her job. The files could not be reproduced so we had to resort to sending the drive out to a lab for data extraction. The bill for the work was well into the hundreds of dollars, plus it was well over two weeks before the data was available again. Had the data been mission critical the company would have been out of business for the entire time it took for data retrieval. Read more

Posted on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Launches D.A.V.E at DEMO 07

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Seagate Technology today formally announced the Digital Audio Video Experience (D.A.V.E) technology, formerly code-named "Crickett", at the DEMO 07 Conference.

The Seagate DAVE platform delivers 10-20 GB of wireless storage in an accessory smaller than many common mobile phones. Data is exchanged between your phone and the storage device either Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
DAVE's mobile storage platform is open source, enabling third party software developers to create new applications for the mobile phone utilizing the external mobile hard drive.
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Posted on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Confirms 1TB 3.5'' HDD

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Seagate has confirmed to DailyTech that they will be launching a 1TB HDD in the first half of 2007. The new 1TB drive will use the perpendicular recording technology Seagate pioneered with the 750 GB drive.

The new drive however will utilize fewer platters and less heads meaning the platters will hold more data than the ones in the current 750GB drive. This move leaves the other big hard drive manufacturers in the dust as no one else has matched the 750 GB HDD from Seagate to date. Read more

Posted on Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate 500GB eSATA External Hard Drive Review

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External hard drives are great for portable storage needs, but often you have to trade speed for that portability. Seagate has an external drive that is as close as you will get to internal drive speeds that uses the eSATA interface.

The subject of this review is the Seagate eSATA 500GB External Hard Drive. Seagate includes a PCI eSATA card for users who don’t have an on-board eSATA part and the required cable. Read more

Posted on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:31:43 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB Hard Drive Review

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The Tech Report published a detailed review of the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 with perpendicular recording technology. Seagate introduced the 750GB 7200.10 in April.

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"Perpendicular recording does wonders for storage capacity, and thanks to denser platters, it can also improve drive performance. Couple those benefits with support for 300 MB/s Serial ATA transfer rates, Native Command Queuing, and up to 16 MB of cache, and the Barracuda 7200.10 starts to look pretty appealing. Throw in an industry-leading five year warranty and a cost per gigabyte that's competitive with 500 GB drives, and you may quickly find yourself scrambling to justify a need for 750 GB of storage capacity.

Is Seagate's Barracuda 7200.10 as good as it sounds? And what's the deal with perpendicular recording technology, anyway? "
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Posted on Tue, 30 May 2006 01:52:36 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB! Hard-drive

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Seagate announces highest capacity 3.5 inch hard-drive to the market. The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 offers 750GB storage achieved through perpendicular technology.

Available options for this high capacity hard-drive series are 8 or 16MB cache, choices of ATA/100, SATA 1.5Gb/s or SATA 3Gb/s.
The Barracuda 7200.10 features Seagates SoftSonic motor to reduce noise and enhanced G-Force protection. Seagate gives a five-year warranty on the new Barracuda drives. Read more

Posted on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:14:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 3.5'' Perpendicular Drive with 15,500RPM

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Seagate is introducing a 3.5" hard-drive with perpendicular technology today called Seagate Cheetah 15K.5.

The Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 comes in 300GB, 146GB and 73GB configurations and spins at 15,500RPMs.
Seagate positions the Cheetah 15K.5 as high-end drive in the enterprise market. Currently the drive is made available to OEMs as SAS and Ultra320 SCSI drive. Read more

Posted on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 02:09:47 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Seagate HDDs: 8GB 1inch Drive, 500 GB DVR Drive, ...

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Seagate announced a couple of new innovative hard drives, including the ST1 a 8GB 1inch drive for portable devices.

Seagate's ST1 1inch HDD series (see photo) features Seagate's RunOn Technology, which ensures consistent music playback while in a high-motion environment, such as jogging - the drive actually senses and compensates for motion to stay on track. The 8GB ST1 is shipping now to OEMs. Will be interesting who will be first to release 8GB mini mp3 players.

Seagate announced it will ship the industry's highest capacity - 500GB - in a hard drive designed specifically for DVR (digital video recorder) and home entertainment systems. The Seagate DB35 Series hard drive will offer up to 85 hours of High-Definition TV recording, 500 hours of standard TV recording, and up to 10 simultaneous standard TV streams with Seagate's DynaPlay technology.

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Posted on Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate introduces 400GB eSATA External DVR Hard Drive

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Seagate announces a 400GB external hard drive especially for digital video recorders and setop boxes.

At the National Show in San Francisco, Seagate will demonstrate its External DVR Hard Drive plugged into the Scientific-Atlanta Explorer 8300 Series DVR. The hard-drive features up to 400GB of additional TV storage in a single plug-and-play box - the highest capacity in the industry - and offers 1394, USB, or the new high-performance eSATA interface.

In addition, Seagate today unveils a new application of its DriveTrust technology that enables cable service operators and DVR makers to lock external storage devices to a specific DVR or other device. Ok that is not so handy. It would be nice to use the external DVR drive to be able to also use it on a PC to watch TV recordings there. DriveTrust could be used to block that.
More details in the Seagate press-release.

Buy a Seagate Hard-drive Now.

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Posted on Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:42:09 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate 5GB USB 2.0 Pocket Hard Drive Review

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EverythingUSB reviews the Seagate 5GB USB 2.0 Pocket Hard Drive (Buy Now).

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"The 5GB bus-powered USB hard drive, measuring just 2.7" in diameter, fits easily in your pocket with the minimalist circular housing, while the 4-inch USB cable retracts snugly inside the case as to not get lost. It also comes loaded with software to easily create partitions and a boot disk."
Read the full review.

Buy the Seagate Pocket Drive at Amazon.com.

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Posted on Tue, 28 Dec 2004 03:46:37 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate 200GB Push Button External Hard Drive Review

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EverythingUSB reviews the Seagate 200GB Push Button External Hard Drive.

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"The new Seagate External Drive series encompasses three separate products: 160GB Hi-Speed USB drive; 160GB Hi-Speed USB & Firewire 400 (1394a) drive; 200GB Hi-Speed USB & Firewire 400 (1394a) drive. The 200GB model was put to test in this review. The new Seagate external drives seems to have followed the lead of the other drive manufacturers in creating a one-button backup external USB drive. What may be different in Seagate’s case is that each facet of the drive is absolutely top-notch. The enclosure supports USB 2.0 and Firewire (IEEE 1394). The drive itself is both a 7200RPM drive and also sports 8MB cache memory for faster sequential transfers (backups are sequential in nature)."
Read the full review.

Compare Prices for Seagate 200GB External HD.

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Posted on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:49:14 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr